"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."--Spinoza, Theologico-Political Treatise, 1670. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.

The Conversion of Saul Simeon Griswold

Joseph Henry C. V. Burton

Lemon Columbine (Aquilegia flavescens) Mary Vaux Walcott

Near Villeneuve, Suisse George Elbert Burr

Untitled (shepherd with sheep) Edward Mitchell Bannister

St. Isidor, Rome James Carroll Beckwith